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October 31, 2016

Section:
Introduction – Politics

“The nonpartisan Background
Poll continues to confirm that a
majority (59%) of Americans characterize themselves year after year as
conservative or very conservative, but this does not always translate into
party politics.”

“The trouble with our liberal
friends is not that they’re ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan.

Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):

Currently the two major parties are Republican
and Democrat:

Republican
Right (Conservatives), began as Whigs, tend to favor economic freedom, but
frequently support laws to restrict personal behavior that violates
“traditional values;” support a strong military, oppose
bureaucracy and high taxes, favor a free market economy and endorse strong
law enforcement.

oAristotle held that truth is far too complex to know through the bare
application of logic to imagination because the variables are too numerous to
enable the thinker to find that truth without reference to known variations of
existent, provable fact.

oAristotle took
into account the changeability of human nature.

oIn developing his
theory, he assumed two premises:

§First, that truth can be determined through logic, but only if it
is based on empirical observation.

§Second, government exists to protect its citizens so they can
freely create their own society born of liberty and choice.

oAristotle’s
thought has heirs in a line from Aquinas to
Hobbes to Locke to Burke to the American Founders and to modern conservatism.

Democrat
Left (Liberals), began as Federalists, usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend
to support significant government control of the economy, a “safety
net” to help disadvantaged, strict regulation of business,
environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, and
tolerate diverse lifestyles.

oPlato is the father of American leftism who believed that truth was
discovered through the application of logic
unconstrained by experience.

oHis was unleavened idealism, and his description of an ideal
political system is one derived from what he imagined would result in the best,
most ordered society from which all would benefit.

oHe proceeds from two basic premises.

§The first is that
transcendent truth is knowable a priori and derived by the mind of man applying
logic to an analysis of abstract principles.

§The second is
that it is the function of government to shape society and, to that end, to
organize its citizens and institutions with the objective of creating the
defined ideal.

oNot surprisingly, Plato's system has never, in the history of
mankind, successful.

oPlato’s progeny have, through the millennia, adopted his
premises in a direct line of thought from Augustine to Descartes to Leibnitz to Kant to Hegel to Marx to modern
liberalism.

oEach accepted as its premises, first, that the truth was knowable
and should be derived by logic without reference to experience and, second,
that government exists -- and should exist -- to shape society to the ideal
and, with it, to bend the will of the individual to the service of the defined
greater good.

oWhen redistribution of wealth was attempted in Rome, Cicero
inherited a 100 year catastrophe in 55BC where nobody wanted to work.

The Republican Party provided national leadership at critical point
in this nation’s history:

oEmancipation
Proclamation (1863):
The first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, issued an order freeing all
slaves in the confederacy.

oEnd
of the Civil War (1865):
Abe Lincoln guides the north to victory in the Civil War and reunites the
nation.

oWomen's
right to vote (1872):
Republicans Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton write the text of the
19th Amendment, which is introduced by Republican Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California. The Amendment was finally ratified
in 1920.

oVictory
in the Spanish American War (1898):
Republican William McKinley achieves victory in the Spanish American War and
forces Spain to give up its claim on Cuba.

oConstruction
of the Panama Canal (1904):
Under Republican Teddy Roosevelt, America takes control of the Panama Canal and
builds it into one of the most crucial locations in world shipping.

oFirst
woman elected to U.S. House of Representatives (1916): Republican Jeannette Rankinbecomes the first woman elected to
the U.S. House of Representatives.

oConstruction
of the Hoover Dam (1928):
Calvin Coolidge signed a law allowing the construction of the Hoover Dam to
begin.

oJackie
Robinson becomes the first black American to play in the Major Leagues (1947): Republican Jackie Robinson broke the color
barrier in Major League Baseball when the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
Republican Branch Rickey, brought him up to the major leagues.

The vast majority of GOP
politicians over the last century can be classified into one of the
following three categories:

oRINOs – Republicans
In Name Only who do not believe that progressivism and big government are bad
for America. Democrats have screwed it up and Republicans should be
entrusted to implement the progressive agenda because they will do it more
efficiently and cost effectively than liberal Democrats have or could.

oCRUELs – Confused
Republicans who are Unable to Exercise Leadership are conservative politicians whose
hearts and minds may be in the right place, but they are unable to: (i) articulate their beliefs; (ii) explain the connection
between progressivism and the ills that beset the nation; (iii) describe
clearly how conservative policies will enhance liberty and economic prosperity;
and (iv) deflect the vicious slanders that the Democrats hurl at them.

oCCCs – Committed,
Conservative Constitutionalists are politicians who have a clear understanding of what the
progressives have wrought and how the country has changed. They can envision
and describe, clerlynd
simply, the bleak future that awaits us if we don’t have a major course
correction. Furthermore, such people also have a clear idea of what must be
done to return the country to its founding ethos, re-institute the ideals of
free market capitalism, constitutional and limited governance, and American exceptionalism and thereby restore the republic.

Today’s
“gentry liberalism” reflects the
interests and values of affluent winners in the era of globalization and
the beneficiaries of the “financialization” of the economy.

oMainstream media openly supports the
Democrat party.

oAcademic liberals have become something
of a political power in their own right.

§Education polls indicate liberal orientation by
faculties at all levels.

§Lack of political diversity in Universities is
reflected in hiring practices.

oLiberal websites such as MoveOn.Org and Huffington
Post are lavishly funded.

oLiberal environmental issues distance it further
from the values and interests of the middle and working classes.

Conservatives have
embraced 1960s beliefs that used to be identified as liberal:

oAmerican
exceptionalism(America has done more than any other
country to improve this world; and American values form the finest value
system).

oThe
bigger government gets and more powerful the state becomes, the greater the
threat to individual liberty and the greater the likelihood that evil will
ensue.

oHigh
levels of taxation render those taxes a veiled form of theft.

oGovernment
funding of those who can help themselves or who can be helped by
non-governmental institutions hurts them and hurts society.

oAmerica
has been based on the Judeo-Christian value system, not secular

oEnlightenment
values alone, and the secularization of American
society will lead to the collapse.

oMurderers
should be put death.

oAmerican
military has done more to preserve and foster goodness and liberty on Earth
than all the artists and professors in America put together.

oLowering
standards to admit minorities mocks the real achievements of members of those
minorities.

oWhen
schools give teenagers condoms, it is a tacit approval to engage in sexual
intercourse.

oAssertions
that manmade carbon emissions will lead to a global warming that will in turn
bring on worldwide disaster are a function of hysteria.

oMarriage
must remain what has been in every recorded civilization - between the two
sexes.

oTrial
lawyers associations and teachers unions have done
great harm to American life.

oNuclear
power, clean coal, and drilling in Alaska and offshore, along with exploration
of other energy alternatives such as wind and solar power, are immediately
necessary.

oSchool
vouchers are more effective than increased spending on public schools in
enabling many poorer Americans to give their children better educations.

oAmerica
is no longer a racist society, and that blaming disproportionate rates of black
violence and out-of-wedlock births on white racism is a lie and an impediment
to progress.

oAmerica,
which accepts and assimilates foreigners better than
any other country in the world, is the least racist, least xenophobic country
in the world.

oLeftist
takeover of the liberal arts departments in nearly every American university
has been an intellectual and moral calamity.

oA
good man and a good marriage are more important to most women's happiness and
personal fulfillment than a good career.

oMales
and females are inherently different.

oWhen
it comes to combating the greatest evils on Earth, such as the genocide in
Rwanda, the United Nations has either been useless or an obstacle.

oWestern
Europe provides social and moral models to be avoided, not emulated.

oAmerica's
children were positively affected by hearing a non-denominational prayer each
morning in school, and adversely affected by the removal of all prayer from
school.

oRemoval
of school uniforms and/or dress codes has had a terrible impact on students and
their education.

oBilingual
education does not work so immersion in English in America is mandatory.

oEnglish
should be declared the national language.

Currently the Republican Party is in turmoil,
with at least three distinct factions fighting for political control:

oThe first faction is best called Rockefeller Republicans, likely the most traditionally Republican. First and foremost,
Rockefeller Republicans are pro-business. They oppose excessive regulation,
high corporate taxes and government bailouts.

oThe second faction, social conservatives, can be found across the political spectrum. They are a minority
faction in both the Democrat and Republican parties,
emphasizing traditional values and morality. They oppose abortion, gay marriage
and unreasonable searches. They believe the government should grant individuals
the freedom to follow their conscience and thus allow them to take moral
action. They also want the government to impose strict laws against immoral
acts without regard for an individual’s conscience.

oThe third faction on the conservative side is the Libertarian Party, the largest third party in the United
States. Libertarians want to promote freedom for all, oppose anything that
violates individual liberty and promote anything that supports individual
liberty.

The meaning of liberalism has changed over the centuries.

Prior to the 20th century, Classical Liberalism was the dominant political
philosophy in the United States.

Classic Liberalism was the political
philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and the signers of the Declaration of
Independence and it permeates the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution, the Federalist Papers and many other documents produced by
the people who created the American system of government.

A strategic connection between leftists and
liberalism resulted in what we now refer to as Modern
American Liberalism.

Over the past century liberalism has passed
through at least four separate stages and is now well into a fifth.

oIt
first emerged late in the 19th century under the banner of Progressivism, asserting that new political
institutions had to be established to regulate industrial concentrations and to
mediate conflicts between business and labor.

oProgressivism
flamed out during World War I and seemed to have disappeared for good during
the 1920s, but it revived itself during the 1930s as "New Deal liberalism" while preserving a few of
the themes of Progressivism and unfolded in five phases:

§The
first New Deal (1933-1934) consisted of gigantic
workfare projects to absorb the unemployed in conservation programs and what
would today be called infrastructure construction; a comprehensive banking
reorganization with guarantees of deposits; agreed rollbacks of agricultural
production, voted by sector, to assure viable pricing; encouragement of cartels
and collective bargaining to raise wages and prices; evaluation of the dollar
and a departure from the gold standard apart from international transactions;
and legislated improvements in working conditions.

§The
second New Deal (1934-1938) included Social
Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission, some remodeling of the
pyramidal corporate structure of the hydroelectric industry, and higher taxes
as a sop to the demagogic political movements chipping at the two-party system.
In the latter half of this phase, the workfare and conservation programs were
rolled back, and the federal deficit was reduced.

§Depressive
conditions began to reappear and Roosevelt reapplied workfare pump-priming on a
massive scale in the third New Deal (1938-1939),
and shifted to the greatest peacetime arms buildup in history, including
America's first peacetime conscription.

§The
fourth New Deal (1939-1945) carried into the
war, counting the workfare program participants as employed (which is as
logical as including European military draftees and defense workers as
employed), unemployment was severely reduced by 1935; counting them as
unemployed, the unemployment numbers came down to the low teens by 1936,
descended below 10 percent in 1940, and unemployment was completely eliminated
before the Japanese attack plunged America into war in December 1941.

§The
final phase of the New Deal (1945-1949) came
posthumously to Roosevelt, but was his GI Bill of Rights, which gave university
tuition and a stake to start a business or buy a farm to 13 million returning
American servicemen (almost 10% of the entire population), and effectively
turned the working class into a middle class, having saved them from
joblessness, trained and led them to victory in war, and staked them to new
careers.

§When
FDR's brand of liberalism faded out because of World War II and the prosperity
of the postwar period, it revived itself in the form of "Cold War liberalism," achieving new peaks of
popularity and influence during the Kennedy-Johnson years.

§The
rebels, protesters, and reformers of the 1960s authored still a fourth chapter
by introducing into the movement the theme of liberation or "cultural liberalism."

§By
this last adaptation liberalism strengthened its appeal to the educated classes
but at the expense of its broad support among working- and middle-class voters,
as it morphed into "leftism." The
traditional liberal objective of providing economic security for the working
man gave way to a desire to reform and even to overturn the inherited fabric of
society, thereby politicizing cultural practices relating to family life,
sexual mores, and religion.

oThis
convergence of leftism and liberalism ultimately
led to a misleading change of name, morphing from socialism, communism, or
Marxism to “liberalism”
created a lasting misconception.

oThe
Modern
Liberalism agenda is to gain control of the institutional hierarchy
of the state and then to use that power to implement their notions of what a
just and humane society entails as they see it.

§There
is nothing “modern” about Modern
Liberalism, as the ideas were hatched around the French Revolution, and
have not changed much since.

§Centralized
vs. decentralized control are concepts that have maintained their meaning
relatively well.

·Leftism / Modern Liberalism
has failed repeatedly through the years:

oFamily: Modern liberalism teaches
the family is an artificial construct that has no profound meaning. The result
has been a society that seems to have given up on the idea of romantic love.

oEducation: Modern liberal ideas about education, focus upon the misbegotten ideas of John Dewey whichwas based upon experiential instruction that eschewed
the classics and sought to prepare youngsters for a trade or some other skill.
This fits the Marxist world-view where the few elites rule the ignorant masses
with an iron hand.

oImmigration: Modern liberal immigration
is premised upon the notion that the world is a giant country, and therefore
all people who want to get into America are already its citizens. While this
might seem insane, it is a crafty policy for those who would make these
untutored foreigners instant citizens capable of voting the day they cross the
border.

oEconomics:
Modern
liberal economics is based upon the idea that capitalism is a theft where the
rich steal from the poor. This simple, antagonistic, class-warfare Marxism,
disproved a thousand times and killed dead as a duck, is yet back from the
grave for another regime.

oForeign
Policy: Modern
liberal foreign policy is premised upon the idea that if the stronger nations
lay down their arms and kneel at the feet of the weak, they will be blessed for
their love and mercy; then peace will reign across the earth.

oTaxation
& Spending: Modern
tax and spend liberalism is premised upon the notion that the more a society
spends, the better place it will be. Instead, there is no causal relationship
in taxing and spending for the good life, but an unfortunate negative
relationship.

oWelfare:
The modern
liberal welfare state assumes that people who are in bad situations are there
for no fault of their own, and must be helped. Support for the indolent causes
the numbers of poor to rise since they are being rewarded.

oChurch& State: Modern
liberal theory presumes that religion is a negative, as Marx taught, so must be
pushed to the side. The net result is that public policy is no longer infused
with the West’s spirit of Christianity but, instead, increasingly becomes
informed by humanism, secularism and atheism.

oEnergy
Policy: The
earth is treated as a living being and mankind’s activities akin to a
deadly attack against it.

oExceptionalism: Modern liberalism teaches
there is no such thing as American Exceptionalism.
Instead, there is only each state’s self-interest, and we must break down
America and its delusions about being better than any other place.

·Surprisingly the Left are more interested
in money than Right-wingers.

oLeft-wingers
are more likely to rate 'high income'
as an important factor in choosing a job.

oLeft
feels there are no right or wrong ways to make money.

oLeft
are less likely to give to charity or to volunteer their time to charity.

oWhen
Leftists donate money it is more likely to advocacy organisations
to advance a political agenda, versus help needy people.

Progressives see economic equality as the
highest form of social justice.

Left tends to be more envious and jealous
of successful people.

Those who favor the redistribution of
wealth are more envious than those who do not.

Leftists were much more willing to give up
some of their own money if it meant taking more money from someone else.

Much of the desire to distribute wealth and
higher taxation is motivated by envy - the desire to take more from
someone else - and bitterness.

Many current liberal
action groups can be directly traced back to class based society with Marxist,
socialist roots.

oSocialism
teaches good of the group always exceed the rights of the individual.

oSocialism
tries to control the means of production through regulation.

oThe cultural offensive launched by progressives was inspired by an
Italian Stalinist named Antonio Gramsci, whose works became an academic fashion in the
1970s.

§Writing
in the 1930s, Gramsci had proposed an innovation in
Marxist theory which sought to address the fact that the working class had
failed in its historic mission as a revolutionary force.

§Gramsci’s solution was to put cultural
institutions at the center of the revolutionary agenda.

§In
Gramsci’s conception, this meant infiltrating
and then subverting universities, churches, media and the institutions of the
arts, the instrumentalities by which ideas were introduced into the general
culture.

§In Gramsci’s
vision, radical subvention of these institutions and therefore of the culture
would make radical ideas the ruling ideas, which would result in radicals
becoming a political ruling class.

oSaul Alinsky’s organizing model
is based on fomenting public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to
spark social upheaval and justify major social changes.

o“Organizing for America”
(OFA) is an offshoot of the Democrat National Committee to agitate locally for
Democrat national supported issues.

§OFA is designed as a grass
roots organization led by hardcore activists (“all leftist politics, all the time”) and involving mostly
unpaid volunteers (“useful idiots”).

Today’s
independents can be described as: Deliberators, Disillusioned, Dislocated,
Disguised, or Disengaged.

Constitution
Party is currently the third party in terms of registered voters, although
primarily in California, favors slashing federal spending, abolishing the
income tax, ending the Federal Reserve, banning abortion, curbing
pornography and reducing immigration.

Libertarian
Party is based on hands-off policies and preaches nonconformity in theory,
but can’t stand ideological nonconformity in practice (absolutists).

Reform Party is
a creation of Ross Perot and is now a shell.

America First
Party is protectionist on trade and conservative on social issues.

Natural Law
Party is focused on a “U.S. peace government’ but has
basically disbanded.

BDS continues to
drive some liberals to blame predecessor for current political failings.

Mechanics of
the crude, hate-based BDS initiative the anti-American Democratic Party
and its complicit Mainstream Media wing have forced on the United States
since 2001:

oInvent, inflate, and over-report bad war news. Tie all bad news to Bush
and/or Republicans. At the same time, ignore or downplay good news as it
relates to Bush, the Republicans or the war(s).

oCreate the illusion of widespread, honest dissent to
Bush policiesby giving plenty of
airtime to leftwing groups and individuals historically antagonistic toward the
projection of US, and only US, power. Fail to report the true agendas of those
groups -- when covering antiwar, anti-Bush protests and events; make sure to
meticulously portray antiwar marches as spontaneous gatherings of mainstream,
mom and pop Americans.

oDownplay, ignore and disparage American success wherever you find it.

oExalt in, sympathize with and mythologize America's
enemies, vilify and deconstruct its protectors.

oDownplay America's generosity and righteousness. Recast a mission that
includes saving a nation from a murdering brute and his rapist, sociopath sons
as a brutal occupation in the pursuit of American Empire.

oFill the Nation's airwaves, from sea to shining sea,
with questionable and sometimes outright false tales of Bush-related misery,
butchery, fraud and waste.

oFoment as much national anxiety and hatred of the
Republican leader as money and can buy. George Soros and other moneyed leftists will fund you. Give airtime and
print coverage to leftist radicals and Democrats who call Bush a war criminal.
Present those radicals and their crazy plans to try President Bush and Vice
President Cheney for "war crimes" as worthy of consideration.

oProvide coverage to leftwing intellectuals and
scientists making anti-Bush statements. Present them as legitimate, non-partisan experts in their fields.
Publicize their specious, politicized findings, present those findings as
non-partisan, accurate and objective.

oPresent major news coverage of every antiwar protest
you can find, whether it draws 100 people or 10,000 people, ignore all pro-US, pro-Iraq
War, pro-troop rallies completely or portray their attendees as violence-prone,
fringe-lunatic jingoists.

oBlame a hurricane's aftermath on Bush. Give news coverage to
racists and Democrat crackpots who say Bush and Cheney actually caused
the hurricane and blew up levees to kill African Americans. Keep that Bush-hate
buzz alive at all costs.

oGive airtime and print coverage to groups and
individuals accusing George W. Bush of having engineered and directed the 911
attacks. Remember, it is not the credibility of accusations that count in shaping
public opinion now, but the seriousness and sheer volume of accusations that
do.

oOnce the onslaught of lies,
moral relativisms and crazy notions have created a self-sustaining, luciferous, widespread unhappiness and confusion, dangle a fat bait of silence and tranquility -- of Hope,
Change and Progress -- crowning your deceptive achievement by hooking the same
fish you made hungry.

Democrat political attacks on Bush administration have been used by
our enemies as justification for continuing attacks on American interests.

oDemocrat attacks allege Bush malfeasance in War on
Terror.

oDemocrat attacks on military tactics and results
are quoted by terrorists in Al Jazeera.

Political parties differ in the cultural norms
associated that define them:

Republican Party

Democrat Party

EnterpriseAmerica

Welfare America

Stay in school

School unimportant –
drop out

Get by contributing

Get by demanding

Selling: identifying customer
needs, making yourself and your product attractive to a customer

In your face: intimidating those around
you

Achievement

Achievement is
“privilege”

Personal responsibility

Society’s fault

Historic
success
– example of America to the world

Historic
failure
– socialist societies everywhere

Building wealth

Supported by builders of
wealth

Making personal and family
history

Drifting

Supporting
a strong community

No stake in community; gang
as community

A Communist system had three pairs of
identifying characteristics, all of which have their origins in Lenin's
ideology and philosophy.

In the political realm,
a monopoly of power was held by one party, with most of the power
concentrated at the top, and that party operated through the process Lenin
called "democratic centralism."

oThat was supposed to mean that open discussion
could precede decision-making, which was then administered with unanimity and
iron discipline.

oHowever It usually meant
that decisions were handed down from a dictator or a small circle of oligarchs,
and were neither discussed nor questioned.

In the economic realm,
the state controlled the means of production, and a command economy,
rather than a market economy, predominated.

In the ideological realm,
the declared aim of building communism, for Marx, the classless, stateless
final stage of human development, was the state's "ultimate, legitimizing goal,"
and the state belonged to an international Communist movement aimed at
moving the whole world toward that future society.

The “Black Book of Communism”
documents the disastrous results:

oResponsible for the murder of 100 million innocent
people.

§76 million killed in China

§62 million killed in the former Soviet Union.

§Almost one-third of all Cambodians killed.

§Decimated the Tibetan and Chinese culture.

oRoutinely tortured and imprisoned tens of millions
of human beings in Soviet Gulags and concentration camps.

oLocked
a billion human beings into mental and physical prisons over the seven long
decades of tyranny.

oProfited
immensely from the misery of others, living in luxury on the backs of peasant
and worker slaves.

oEnabled, supported, lied
about, and protected all the worst tyrannies in the world, even if they were our deadly
ideological enemies.

oActively
aided and abetted Islamic fascists against America and Israel, against moderate
Muslims throughout the world, and after 9/11/01, against freedom-loving
Americans who will not surrender to our extremist ideology."

oPersecuted
people of faith all over the world, and that we continue to do so today in
China and Vietnam, Africa and North Korea.

oActively working to destroy free
peoples, especially the United States and Israel.

oTook bribes from oil despotismsto protect the worst kinds of
tyranny inflicted every day upon innocent women, children, and men, and upon
Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahá'ís,
and even upon atheist Marxists in those countries."

oSupported and enabled the
oppression of women and girls, including terrorizing them into submission,
wounding them by genital mutilation, and murdering them if they try to escape
the control of their tyrannical families and communities."

oUsed lies and indoctrination as
standard policy tools.

Socialism is defined as "Any of various theories or systems of social
organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned
collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the
economy."

Socialists
believe in the use of force to gain their personal ends.

Socialists
believe in slavery, but not the slavery of an individual owning
another individual, but the economic slavery of a state owning the output
of the individual.

Socialists are
racists, since socialists will always bring up the subject of race,
regardless of the prevailing drift of the conversation.

Socialists
believe the worst in everyone, believing if they are all racists, racism
must be shoved in our faces constantly; if they are stingy, they must have
our money forcibly removed and redistributed to others; if they are
heartless, they must mandate compassion.

Socialists think
religion, especially Christianity, is stupid and nothing but a prop for
the unwashed masses.

Socialists
believe in an ignorant society, ensuring that public school systems are dumbed down that students can't read their own
diplomas, since useful idiots are easier to dominate than citizens who
have read and understood the documents of the Founding Fathers.

Socialists
believe you have no right of self-defense with utter faith that government
agents can protect you from any and all harm.

Socialists are
intolerant, mocking and ridiculing those with the temerity to disagree.

Socialists are
hypocrites, expecting the unwashed masses to conform to their ideals while
they, the lofty and elite, are exempt.

Above all,
socialists are in denial, since no matter how much you point out the
obvious – that the government is fulfilling the dictionary
definition of socialism – they flat deny it.

Socialism has been tried repeatedly through America’s history
starting in Jamestown and Plymouth, but the experiments failed each time
it was attempted.

Liberal policies diminish a society's moral character:

The bigger the government, the less the
citizens do for one another.

The welfare state, though often well
intended, is nevertheless a Ponzi scheme.

Citizens of liberal welfare states become
increasingly narcissistic.

The liberal welfare state makes people
disdain work.

Nothing more guarantees the erosion of
character than getting something for nothing.

The bigger the government, the more the
corruption.

The welfare state corrupts family life.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation
of its young citizens into responsible adults.

As a result of the left's sympathetic views
of pacifism and because almost no welfare state can afford a strong
military.

The
leftist weltanschauung sees society's and the world's great battle as between rich
and poor rather than between good and evil.

Congress was given the 45
Declared Goals for the Communist Takeover of America in 1963 (from “The
Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen)
which have all been embraced and implemented by liberal Democrats ever since.

US
acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war

US
willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war

Develop
the illusion that total disarmament by the US would be a demonstration of
"moral strength"

Permit
free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and
regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

Extension
of long term loans to Russia and Soviet Satellites

Provide
American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination

Grant
recognition of Red China, and admission of Red
China to the UN.

Set up
East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise
in 1955 to settle the Germany question by free elections under supervision
of the UN

Prolong
the conferences to ban atomic tests because the US has agreed to suspend
tests as long as negotiations are in progress

Allow
all Soviet Satellites individual representation in the UN

Promote
the UN as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand
that it be set up as a one world government with its own independent armed
forces.

Resist
any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party

Do away
with loyalty oaths

Continue
giving Russia access to the US Patent Office

Capture
one or both of the political parties in the US

Use
technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions,
by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

Get
control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and
current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of
teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.

Gain
control of all student newspapers

Use
student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations
which are under Communist attack.

Infiltrate
the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

Gain
control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

Continue
discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic
expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all
good sculpture from parks and buildings", substitute shapeless,
awkward, and meaningless forms.

Eliminate
all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a
violation of free speech and free press.

Break
down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, and
obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.

Present
Homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and
healthy".

Infiltrate
the churches and replace revealed religion with "social"
religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual
maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch"

Eliminate
prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds
that it violates the principle of "separation of church and
state"

Discredit
the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of
step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a
worldwide basis.

Discredit
the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had
no concern for the "common man".

Belittle
all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American
history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big
picture:" Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists
took over.

Support
any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the
culture - - education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health
clinics, etc.

Eliminate
all laws or procedures, which interfere with the operation of the
Communist apparatus.

Eliminate
the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Discredit
and eventually dismantle the FBI

Infiltrate
and gain control of more unions.

Infiltrate
and gain control of big business

Transfer
some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all
behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but
psychiatrists can understand or treat.

Dominate
the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of
gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

Discredit
the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

Emphasize
the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.
Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to
suppressive influence of parents.

Create
the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of
the American tradition; that students and special interest groups should
rise up and make a "united force" to solve economic, political,
or social problems.

Overthrow
all colonial governments before native populations are ready for
self-government.

Internationalize
the Panama Canal.

Repeal
the Connally Reservation so the US can not prevent the World Court from seizing
jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction
over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and
individuals alike.

Principles:

America was founded on a short list of
broadly stated, fundamental principles:

Our liberties come
from our Creator, not from our government.

The authority to
govern comes from God through the people.

Human nature tends
toward evil and not toward good.

Government, being
obligated to restrain human nature, must be obliged to restrain itself.

The Declaration of Independence is our nation’s founding
document, not the Constitution.

The Constitution was the foundational organizational document on
how we would govern ourselves.

National Sovereignty is a foundational principle established in the
Declaration of Independence.

The traditional family unit is an official fundamental social value
essential in America.

Freedom of religion and open religious expression is a foundational
American principle.

National security is the primary purpose and function of the
federal government.

Capitalism is the official American economic principle.

Reasons Socialism is inferior to
Capitalism:

Capitalism
produces faster growth than Socialism.

Capitalism works
in concert with human nature while Socialism works against it.

Capitalism
rewards merit, Socialism rewards mediocrity.

Capitalism is
freedom while Socialism is slavery.

The marketplace
does a much better job of allocating resources than Socialism’s
central planning.

Principles of Conservatism:

All people are endowed
by their Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. We fought a war to regain these rights from our old
government, and we created the Constitution to keep our new government
from ever taking them away again.

Limited government is a
necessary evil required to maintain a civil society. Excessive government
is an unnecessary evil that undermines the liberty intrinsic to human
dignity.

Equal justice under
equal laws must exist for a society to remain unified. Lady Justice is
blindfolded for a reason. The law does not exist to serve only the
aggrieved and making it do so divides the people under it.

Solutions are best when
they are established voluntarily and locally. The federal government is
the antithesis of that, as it is coercive and distant.

Life is a series of
tradeoffs. Doing one thing will come at the expense of doing something
else.

An individual is more
likely than bureaucrats to know what is in his own self-interest.

Policies are as useful
as the incentives they create, not the good intentions with which they
were created.

As observed by
Milton Friedman, there are four ways of spending money. From most
efficient to least efficient:

oSpend your own money on yourself.

oSpend your own money on someone else.

oSpend someone else’s money on yourself.

oSpend someone else’s money on someone else (which happens to
be how government spends money).

Conservatism is based on first
principles providing the core framework for an internally con­sistent and
meaningful policy agenda:

It sustains conservatism's appreciation for the central place of
individual liberty in American political life.

It informs our resistance to the liberal shift from equality of
opportunity to equality of results.

It supports America's national interest in advancing freedom in the
world but prudently considers what we can and should do in that cause.

It demands the appointment of judges who understand that their
proper function is to uphold the Constitution, not make social policy
according to their own pop-philosophy.

It shores up the idea of free markets and encourages policy reforms
grounded in market-based solutions.

It works against unsustainable federal spending and the fiscal
burdens placed on future genera­tions by uncontrolled entitlements.

It informs conservatism's defense of family, neighborhood, local
community, and church.

Tea Party Principles of Beliefs and
Practices to Oppose:

Principles of Belief

Practices to Oppose

Declaration of Independence, the Bill
of Rights and the original intent of the US Constitution

Arrogance and criminal conduct of
Central Government tyranny and Presidential Despotism

Three ideas that separate conservatives
from liberals:

·Progressives and those who sympathize with them are
economically risk-averse compared with conservatives.

·Progressives benefit enormously from the fact that
economic inequality matters much more to Americans than conservatives like to admit.

·Conservatives see people as assets, and
progressives see people as liabilities.

Don’t trust the leadership of
the Republican Party any more than the Democrat Party.

Use the GOP
infrastructure as the most convenient vehicle to engage the political system
to fight for our freedom and liberty.

Recommendations:

Political parties must wrest control back
from their lunatic fringe leadership.

Amend the Hatch Act (or
the President issue an executive order) to prohibit all White House staff
members from participating in partisan political activity in any capacity
during the time they serve in government.